From Stephanie Logan of Centennial, COI sincerely hope your mission thrives. The Church these days seems overly intent on preaching politics and battering its members with ultimatums and threats instead of focusing on the messages of love, forgiveness and daily sacrifice that convert followers from the inside out and are therefore more effective in the long run!

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Thin Membrane

Some people say that they don't meditate because they don't believe in God, being that mediation is all about God thinking. Maybe not. Mediation, for me, is more about not paying attention to my thinking mind. So, whether I believe in God or not, is of no consequence. I try not to pay attention or to focus on thoughts anyway. Besides, such thoughts are only my thoughts. So what might happen if I meditate? Well, a thin membrane, if you will, surrounds my crazy, thinking mind, and sets up a barrier, between my mind and my actions. After mediation, I might experience the world around me, people, places, and things, with new insight. Why? Because my mind, which houses judgments, false pride, bloated ego, or wounded ego, negative emotions that have little to do with reality, and so on, no longer get in the way of seeing and experiencing the world in this new post mediation way. My mind houses and releases a lot of emotions that do me little good in most cases. The thin membrane keeps all this in check. But it is thin, so I have to meditate regularly. So, mediation is not so much about God, as it is about emotional sobriety. I have found it so.